Jack Chen is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the Auckland University at Technology, teaching organic chemistry, molecular design and general chemistry. He conducted his PhD and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Auckland with Professor Margaret Brimble, working on the synthesis of spirastrellolide B - a potent protein phosphatase inhibitor with potential anti-cancer properties.
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Ebubekir Avci received his PhD degree in robotics from Osaka University, Japan and was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Toyota Technological Institute, Japan in the field of parallel mechanism robots. Then, he was a Research Associate with the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College, London. Until 2024 Ebu worked at Massey University as a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Mechatronics and Robotics, and he is now Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canterbury.
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At times the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology has places available for PhD scholarships.
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Catherine is an Associate Professor in Chemistry at Massey University, appointed in late October 2014. Prior to this she was an ARC Future Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the Ian Wark Research Institute at the University of South Australia. She is a physical chemist with expertise in colloid and surface chemistry. Catherine is also the elected representative for MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigators on the Science Executive.
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Dr Viji Sarojini is a Professor in the School of Chemical Sciences at The University of Auckland.
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Dr Michel Nieuwoudt is a research scientist at the Photon Factory in the School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland.
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Erin Leitao is an Associate Professor in Chemistry at the University of Auckland. Her career in science started in Canada with a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Victoria, followed by a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Calgary. Erin then went on to do postdoctoral research in Bristol before coming to New Zealand and joining the University of Auckland in 2015.
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David Barker is a Professor at the Faculty of Science, University of Auckland.
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Baptiste Auguié is a Senior Lecturer at the Physics School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington.
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Professor Renwick Dobson heads up the Dobson Lab, a chemical biology laboratory based at the University of Canterbury.
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Volker Nock is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Co-Director and Principal Investigator of the Biomolecular Interactions Centre at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
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Jenny Malmström is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland. She holds a MSc (bioengineering) from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and a PhD (nanoscience) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark (2010).
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